Portable wardrobe



L. M. BENDER P RTABLE WARDROBE Feb. 2 1926. 1,571,366

Filed Marh 9, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR LI LLIANMBENDER ORNEY ,Feb. 2 1926. 1,571,366

L. M. BENDER PORTABLE WARDROBE Filed March 9, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR LIL LIANMBBNDER.

Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

LILLIAN M. BENDER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

PORTABLE WARDROBE. I 1

Application filed March 9, 1925. Serial Ito. 14,011.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LILLIAN M. BEN-DER, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable lVardrobes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention appertains to certain improvements iii-portable wardrobes, and more particularly to those of a type provided with a knock-down frame con struction readily assembled and adapted to carry a draped or canopy covering of textile or other material, when fully assembled and in readiness for use.

A principal object of the invention is to provide for a wardrobe of the character designated, and one of an exceptionally simple, durable, cheap and eflicient construction, that may he easily installed in any convenient recess for the protection of wearing apparel, and such like, from the harmful effects of dust.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention resides in the certain novel and useful construction and arrangement of the parts thereof, as will be, hereinafter, more fully described, set forth in the claims hereunto appended, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a. part thereof, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved portable wardrobe, showing the hanger bar, adjustable drape-supporting frame, and standards for supporting the hanger bar, the drapes being indicated in dot-and-dash lines for greater clearness of illustration;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the drapesupporting frame, with parts broken away to show the telescopic tubular members com prising the longitudinals of the frame and the resilient spacing members thereof;

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on the line of Figure 2, showing one of the resilient spacing members forming a part of the drape-supporting frame and the method of attaching these members to the hanger bar; and

Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional detail, showing the 'method of securing the end resilient members to the extremities of the tabular members.

Referring to the drawings with greater particularity, 1 indicates, in a general way,

the adjustable supporting frame, which is comprised of a plurality of resilient spacing members 2, 3 and 4t mountedupon a plurality of telescopic tubular longitudinals 5 and 6 and a ridge member 7, the members a and 6 forming the side longitudinals and the member 7 the ridge longitudinal, all of which constitute the frame 1 and act as supports for the drapes, or canopy, 8.

The resilient spacing members 2, 3 and 1 are of like configuration and are each comprised of a piece of flat spring material bent to form a central loop 9 adapted to embrace the member 7 tions 10 and 11, oppositely disposed concavoconve: ;o clamping sections 12 and 13, and laterally disposed spacing arms 14 and 15 terminating in supporting loops 1,6 and 17 adapted to embrace and support the longitudinals 5 and G.

The longitudinals 5 and 6 and the ridge member 7 are each con'iprised of two telescopic sections, 518, 619 and 7---20, respectively, adapted to slide one within the other, permitting adjustment of the supporting frame 1 to any desired length.

The end resilient. members 2 and 4: are rigidly secured to their respective telescopic members by means of reduced end portions, forming seats for the loops 1b and 17, and jam-nuts 21, 22 and 23. The outer end of the longitudinal 18 is shown in detail in Figure 4-, and comprises the reduced end portion 24: having an outer threaded end 25 adapted to seat one of the loops 16 of the spacing member at, which loop is fitted tightly there on and held in place against a shoulder by means of one of the jam-nuts 21.

The gripping members 12 and 13 of the spacing members are formed in such manner that they may be sprung apart to receive the supporting bar 26 and, when released, to tightly grip this bar and frictionally hold the entire frame 1 in a substantially horizontal plane. The supporting bar 26 may be carried by suitable standards, or end frames 27 and 28 having bearing members 29 and 30 at their upper ends adapted to receive the outer ends of said supporting bar.

The drapes, or canopy, may be made of any suitable material, preferably textile fabric, and placed upon the frame in such manner as best suits the taste of its owner, with flaps 31 and 32 carried upon the longitudi'nal 5 by means of rings, or the like, 533 and 34, for convenience in gaining ready acdownwardly extending seccess to the enclosure, formed by the supporting frame and drapes, for the introduction and suspensionof articles of Wearing apparel 35. V

Having thus described my invention, I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a device of the character described, a supporting frame comprised of a plurality of spacing members, a plurality of longitudinals connecting said spacing members and adjustable as to their lengths, the said spacin members being provided With aligned gripping means adapted to embrace a supporting bar and. to frictionally grip the same to hold said frame in position.

In a device of the character described, a supporting frame comprised of a plurality of resilient spacing members having aligned gripping means adapted for engagement With asupporting bar, a plurality of tubular longitudinals connecting said spacing members and adaptedfor adjustment as to their lengths, said spacing members having centrally arranged loops and loops formed at their extremities adapted to embrace the said longitudinals, and means for rigidly securing certain of said spacing members to the ends of said longit-udinals.

In a device of the character described, a wardrobe supporting frame comprised of a plurality of resilient spacing members, a plurality of adjustable tubular longitudinals connecting said spacing members, said spacing members being comprised of spring material bent to form longitudinally arranged embracing loops and centrally aligned gripping sections, andmeans for rigidly sec-uring certain of said longitudinal embracing loops to the ends of said longitudinals.

4:. In a wardrobe construction, the combination with a supporting frame for drapes and canopies, of a supporting bar therefor, of standards for said supporting bar, said supporting framebeing comprised of a plurality of resilient spacing members having centrally aligned gripping sections adapted to grip the supporting bar, a plurality of tubular longitudinals connecting said spacing members, said spacing members being com prised of spring material bent to form longitudinal-embracing loops, means for securing said loops to certain of said longitudinals, and a canopy adapted to cover and be supported by said frame and supporting bar.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting frame, said supporting frame being comprised of a plurality of resilient spring spacing members having centrally allgned gripping sections adapted to grip a supporting bar, loops formed centrally of said spacing mem bers and adjacent the said gripping sections and loops formed at the extremities of said spacing members, a plurality of longitudinals adapted to be embraced at their extremities, by said last mentioned loops, and a ridge member adapted to be embraced by said centrally formed loops, the said frame I as a Whole being adapted to form a support for draperies and canopies.

In testnnony whereof I have ahixed my signature.

LILLIAN M. BENDER. 

